Festival Collection (page 6)

Travel by train to the Edinburgh International Festival
Page of adverts in the Illustrated London News, 1949, including for British Rail - travel by train to the Edinburgh International Festival - for Rolls-Royce and Prices Energol

Italian poster, Camogli Fish Festival, near Genoa, Italy, 10 May 1953. 1953

Welsh Eisteddfod Regalia 1906
Welsh Eisteddfod Regalia and Offices. Ceremony in the Royal National Eisteddfod takes place every summer in the first week of August, been happening for a couple of centuries since 1568

Kern Baby 1902
One of the customs of the festival of Ceres, observed in the northern part of Northumberland at the close of the reaping not the ingathering

Knutsford, Cheshire, Royal May Day Festival 1902
May Day Festival in Knutsford, Cheshire town, taking place every year, were children dress-up in costumes, shepherdesses, milkmaids and folkloric figures like Robin Hood, Little John and Maid Marion

Girls in costume
Three young ladies in 16 or 17Th Century costumes at a street festival Portsmouth Date: circa 1970

Dasara festival - Gurkhas - NWFP
Gurkhas sacrificing a water buffalo as part of the Dasara festival, held for 10 days in September October. This regiment are British colonial forces stationed in the North West Frontier Province

During the winter festivals in Europe paraded the streets and entered houses to dance or play dice in silence. Date: 13th - 16th century

During the Verbenas festival in Madrid, there is a competition for the best shawls & hair combs. The name of the winner becomes famous throughout Spain. Date: 1930s

SACRIFICE, DAHOMEY
At Dahomey, in the annual EK- QUE-NOO-AH-TOH-ME sacrifice of the annual HWAH-NOOEE-WHA festival, victims are seated in little boats and dropped from a height Date: 1876

Festival procession, Japan, circa 1890. Date: circa 1890

Festival car and procession, Japan, circa 1890. Date: circa 1890

A floor plan from the official guide to the Festival of Britain - South Bank Exhibition. Date: 1951

Harvest Festival at Charminster School, West Dorset, England - 23rd September 1943 1943

Aden, Yemen - a large gathering (public holiday or festival or perhaps a large outdoor market?). View toward the bay. circa 1910s

Algeria - Sheiks and Goums - open-air festival
Sheiks (local leaders) and Goums (mounted contingents of Arab or Berber horsemen) at a large open air festival. 1912

XI Deutsches Turnfest - Frankfurt, Germany
XI Deutsches Turnfest (11th German Gymnastics Festival) - Frankfurt, Germany - July 1908 - inset scenes of two brick throwers, The opera House

Karnak - Obelisks of Thutmose I
The obelisks of Thutmose I (1504 BCE to 1492 BCE) of Festival Hall East, Karnak Temple Complex, Egypt Date: circa 1910s

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Woman of Caux in white dress, tall bonnet with lace tails at a harvest festival in an orchard.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux

Twelfth Night 1841
Twelfth Night celebrations - crowds of people on the pavement outside a shop. Date: January 1841

RING A ROSES 1930S
Little girls in traditional dress play Ring o Roses at a childrens village festival in Upper Silesia. Date: 1930s

FESTIVAL JULY 1790
Celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, Parisians enjoy fireworks and dancing on the Champs Elysees throughout the night. Date: 18 July 1790

ST ANNES SOCIETY DINNER
The anniversary festival of the Royal Asylum of St Annes Scoiety, in the hall of the Clothworkers Company; the Duke of Cambridge is in the Chair. Date: 1889

TONGAN BOXING 1870
Pugilism in the Pacific as a crowd of Tongans fight during the Tow Tow festival. Date: 1870

HANDEL FESTIVAL, LONDON
View of the magnificent Box erected for their MAJESTIES, in Westminster Abbey, under the Direction of Mr James Wyatt, at the Commemoration of Handel Date: 1784

ADVERT / VERDI OPERA 1953
Verdi festival at Verona - Aida, Il Trovatore, and La Forza del Destino Date: 1953

RUSKINS MAY QUEEN
Ruskins May Festival at Whitelands College, Chelsea - the May Queen in a dress designed by Kate Greenaway Date: 1889

FESTIVAL OF CATS / CAIRO
The festival of cats, Cairo, Egypt. Date: 19th century

REVOLUTIONARY FESTIVAL
Parisians celebrate the Foundation of the Republic with a chariot race in the Champ de Mars Date: 22 September 1796

Shakespeare Jubilee, Stratford 1769
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Playwright and poet. The Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon. Date: 1769

BACCHUS
Roman countryfolk celebrate a festival in honour of Bacchus Date: 29 BC

Ecstatic Moslems
MOSLEM FANATICS At the Mohurrum Festival, Iran, devotees mutilate themselves while in a state of ecstasy Date: 1913

Harvest Festival church service
Harvest Festival service, Church of England Date: circa 1918

Opera House, Central City, Colorado, USA - a mecca for summer visitors when the annual play festival is held (July) in this noted old Opera House. Date: circa 1930s

The Royal Festival Hall, London Date: 1960s

SATURNALIA
Romans celebrate the festival of the SATURNALIA which occurred in December and was the forerunner of the Christians Christmas

Sangerfest - Rostock, Germany
Commemorative card produced for the Sangerfest (Song Festival) held at Rostock, Germany - in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Music Worcester Cathedral
The Three Choirs music festival held in Worcester Cathedral. Date: circa 1840

WORCESTER CATHEDRAL
A music festival held in Worcester Cathedral. Date: circa 1840

WORCESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Three Choirs music festival held in Worcester Cathedral. Date: circa 1840

12th Deutsches Turnfest, Leipzig, Germany
" Heart and hand to the fatherland!" - 12th Deutsches Turnfest (German Gymnastics Festival) at Leipzig - 12th-16th July. Date: 1913

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II 1926- ) and the Duke of Edinburgh (1921- ) visit the Festival of Britain - London - May 4th, 1951. Date: 1951

Judging a Fancy Dress Competition - Huntingdon
Judging a Fancy Dress Competition at a Summer Festival Fair Parade Pageant at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. The two (possible winners) are a pair of mice (with added hand-drawn tails!)

Geneva, Switzerland - Night Festival - Kursaal - Fireworks
Geneva, Switzerland - Night Festival - Kursaal (Grand Casino) - Fireworks Date: circa 1902

France - Nice Carnival - The Music Float Date: 1904

Arturo Prat Monument, Plaza Intendencia, Valpariso, Chile
Valparaiso, Chile - Plaza Intendencia (Municipality Square) with the monument to Arturo Prat. Agustin Arturo Prat Chacon (1848-1879), was a Chilean navy officer

Procession on the Feast of Bayram - Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1819

Duchess of York - Toc H League of Helpers - lighting lamps
Elizabeth the Duchess of York (later Elizabeth the Queen Mother 1900-2002) lighting lamps at the Toc H League of Helpers Festival and lamplighting Ceremonial at the Royal Albert Hall

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